Day of Valor where Cowardice reigns

TODAY is the 73rd anniversary of the Fall of Bataan. It was always known as Bataan Day or even Bataan and Corregidor Day until a law was passed to name it Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor).

The fall of the Bataan peninsula in World War II ended the US-Philippine effort to defend our archipelago against the Japanese invasion. Lacking food, medicine and ammunition, the Philippine-American forces surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Forces on April 9, 1942. The 68,000 Filipino soldiers and 11,796 Americans who became the Japan’s prisoners of war were made to go through the “Bataan Death March” of 140 kilometers.